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de Castro, a small expedition against the Quir- 

 imba islandry, who had allied themselves with 

 the hostile tribes about Mombasah. The attack 

 was successful, the chief town was pillaged and 

 burnt, and terror of the invader brought all the 

 neighbouring islets to terms. In 1528-9 the 

 Viceroy of India, Nuno da Cunha, being about 

 to attack Mombasah, was supplied with provi- 

 sions by the Chief, and the Portuguese presently 

 reduced the coast to a single rule whose centres 

 were successively Kilwa, Sofala, and Mozam- 

 bique. East Africa then became one of the four 

 great governments depending upon the vice- 

 royalty of India; the three others being Ma- 

 lacca, Hormuz, and Ceylon. 



In this state Zanzibar remained till the close 

 of the next century. When, however, Pedro 

 Barrato de Rezende, Secretary to the Viceroy, 

 Count of Linhares, wrote his e Breve Tratado ' on 

 the Portuguese colonies of India and East Africa 

 (1635), the Island had ceased to be vassal and 

 tributary, but the Sultan remained friendly to 

 Europeans. Many of the latter occupied with 

 their families rich plantations ; Catholic worship 

 was protected, and there was a church in which 

 officiated a brother of the order of St Austin. 

 There was the usual massacre of the Portu- 



